Funding and Building your Montana Business

“How do you promote Cisco’s ‘culture’ with a workforce that’s so distributed?”

He deadpanned, “We have more picnics.”

It is no accident that a good business is usually the result of a solid plan together with the right people.

Business plans are BS. In the end, it doesn’t matter how cute your logo is. All that really counts is whether you are successfully selling your products or services to customers. Everything else is just dross.

If negotiating the legal system is almost always a hassle, entrepreneurs tend to occupy their own special place in lawyer hell — too poor to afford the best, yet too sophisticated and demanding to do it on the cheap. On the menu of horrors: unreturned phone calls; a condescending "I’m-a-lawyer-and-you’re-not" attitude; the overworking and overbilling of routine matters; missed deadlines and deal-killing dropped balls.

One way to be more creative is to get in touch with your irritation. I ask students to compile their complaints about poor service, things that break, or software that they need. They come in with a complaint and talk about it. They realize that many new products are formed out of dissatisfaction.

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it’s widely accepted that the winning companies during the next generation will be those that have employees eager to come to work and bring with them their hearts, minds, creativity and passion.

MSU is looking for companies who want to take advantage of the great innovation and creativity of its students. Does your company qualify? – See full info at: "Businesses sought for MSU marketing research class" http://www.matr.net/article-12672.html

Don’t lock your scientists, researchers, and inventors in ivory towers. Your organization will benefit by the knowledge that flows to them from outside your company. Instead of asking ‘How can I make my R&D lab more productive?’ Fleming says a better question to ponder is, ‘How can I commercialize from this web of connected engineers?’

Financing is the lifeblood for small firms. But how do you know how much you need? And where you can get it?